The Christmas Cafe: A Clean and Sweet Small Town Cafe Romance by Maisy Marple

Author:Maisy Marple [Marple, Maisy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: CCS Publishing
Published: 2024-02-14T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 10

An hour later, Claire was home in her pajamas, watching It’s a Wonderful Life from the middle, where she’d left off the night before. She was digging into the first of two pints of mint chocolate chip ice cream that she’d set down on the coffee table in front of the couch.

Looking at them, she thought that she really should just start buying ice cream in the half gallon sized containers. Or better yet, those massive tubs of vanilla and chocolate that people got for kids’ birthday parties. At the rate her love life was going, she would be eating more ice cream in the future.

Kitty had tried to help her when the phone call with Jake Robinson had ended. Of course, she’d only heard Claire’s side of the call, but she hadn’t really needed to know what Jake had said to know that Claire’s expectations hadn’t come anywhere close to being met.

She’d walked Claire home and promised to deliver her a few chapters of her book in the morning to show that she was keeping her end of the bargain. None of that mattered to Claire after the most deflating phone call she’d been on in a long while.

The call she’d gotten from her parents about her sister Holly’s move to Los Angeles had been more deflating, but that had been years earlier. That call was different because Claire had an inkling of what was going to be discussed. She knew what the news was going to be and why. The writing had been on the wall for years at that point, and it was only a matter of time before her sister could get enough cash to split town without having to look back. What had made that phone call so rough was the fact that her sister hadn’t called herself to make her plans known to Claire. Claire had found out the official news from her parents the day after Holly left. That had stung beyond belief and had left a distance between the two of them that was more than the physical separation of the landmass they inhabited.

The phone call with Jake Robinson had been such a letdown because she’d allowed herself to become excited about the notion of a date with the devilishly handsome man. Despite her initial apprehension, she’d picked up the phone because she felt an assurance that he was going to say yes to her request. How could he not after she’d heard from the woman she thought was his mother?

Suddenly, Claire sat up and set the second pint of ice cream down on the table between herself and the TV. The movie was just getting into the scene at the dance where George Bailey is reacquainted with his future wife, Mary. Claire raised an eyebrow as she watched George shift his fixation on the flirtatious blond to his future wife. He’d had his mind on one thing and yet ended up on a completely different path. In the scene just

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